Melbourne — Places to eat
Coffee in a laneway, then a tram to the next one
- Hardware Société (Hardware Street) — Pink-awning laneway brunch, on many must-eat lists
- Chin Chin — Loud, Thai-leaning Asian canteen; the pad thai is the draw
- Pellegrini's Espresso Bar — Italian espresso bar unchanged since 1954; order off the wall
- Bratwurst Shop & Co (Queen Victoria Market) — The market queue for German sausage in a roll
- HuTong Dumpling Bar (Market Lane) — Chinatown soup dumplings and chilli-oil wontons
- Donnini's (Lygon Street) — Handmade pasta on Little Italy's main drag, three kinds per plate
- Pho Hung Vuong 2 (Victoria Street, Richmond) — Little Saigon pho that lands in two minutes
- Stalactites — Greek gyros on the same corner since 1978, open past midnight
- Young & Jackson — Pub opposite the station since 1861: beer and chicken parma
- Patricia Coffee Brewers — Menu: white, black, filter. One of Melbourne's big three
- Proud Mary (Collingwood) — Warehouse roaster-café for brunch and specialty coffee
- Degraves Street & Centre Place cafés — Lanes lined with pavement cafés: textbook Melbourne
- Lune Croissanterie (Fitzroy) — Croissants baked in a glass cube; the NYT made it famous
- American Doughnut Kitchen (Queen Victoria Market) — Hot jam doughnuts from an old market van, 5 for A$11
- Naked for Satan — Rooftop beers over Fitzroy with a city skyline view
- Max on Hardware — Kangaroo steak at a cobblestone lane table
- Flower Drum — Cantonese fine dining, duck carved at the table
- Lee Ho Fook — Modern Chinese down a Flinders Lane alley
- Caterina's Cucina e Bar — Northern Italian in a basement behind Art Deco gates
- Vue de Monde — Australian-ingredient tasting menu on level 55
- Gelato Messina (Fitzroy, Smith Street) — Smith Street gelato with an after-dark queue
- The Kettle Black — Brunch in a restored Victorian terrace
- Two Birds One Stone — Brunch by day, wine by night in South Yarra
- Brother Baba Budan — Tiny specialty café with chairs on the ceiling